Sep 222009
Yesterday brought in a record number of visitors to the blog.
Or actually hits on a single image.
Whereas the blog regularly gets around four thousand hits a day, yesterday’s crop was 250000. Yes, sports fans, that’s a quarter of a million.
The reason: the leeched Metallica logo in a facebook application that is apparently very popular in spanish-speaking countries.
An e-mail exchange with the author of the rectified the situation quickly, and the attention has dwindled ever since the link was removed.
Generally it’s a good idea to ban image inlining without a proper referrer.
Yeah, I took a look at the relevant plugins, and settled this issue over e-mail. Hardly a long-term solution, but worked in this case.